Senior Technical Recruiter

Skylo Technologies•Mountain View, CA

3d•$125,000 - $155,000•Onsite

About The Position

Skylo is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter in Mountain View to manage full-cycle hiring for critical engineering teams and to improve the hiring system. This role involves treating each search as an opportunity to refine role definitions, candidate evaluation, and closing strategies. The recruiter will be a valuable partner to hiring managers, making their interview processes more predictive and candidate conversations more effective.

Requirements

A CS degree, Information Systems, or comparable technical educational background.
3-5 years of in-house technical recruiting at a startup or scale-up — primarily as a solo recruiter or as part of a small team building out a scaling org.
Demonstrated partnership with hiring managers: examples of how you've shaped a role definition, built or evolved an interview loop, or pushed back on a search that wasn't going to work.
Track record of process improvement — interview rubric overhauls, ATS workflow redesign, sourcing methodology shifts, candidate experience upgrades.
Native fluency with AI in your daily workflow. We're not looking for "I've tried ChatGPT" — we want someone who already uses Claude or equivalent to draft outreach, synthesize candidate signals, run boolean strategy, and accelerate screening.
Comfort hitting and reporting on KPIs (pipeline velocity, offer acceptance, time-to-hire) without losing sight of quality.
Skill in identifying niche technical talent across software, hardware, and satellite communications domains.
Experience closing complex offers by communicating mission, scope, and equity value — especially with passive candidates who weren't actively looking.
Bias toward proactive improvement: when you see a broken step in the funnel, you fix it instead of working around it.

Nice To Haves

Agency recruiting earlier in your career is welcome as a foundation, but your most recent and most meaningful work should be in-house at a high-velocity company.
Familiarity with Ashby and Metaview is a plus; experience with comparable modern ATS/interview-intelligence tools is fine — we care more about the instinct to use the tools well than the specific logos on your resume.
You don't need a satellite background — you need to be willing to learn the vocabulary fast and source with precision in uncharted territory.

Responsibilities

Own full-cycle recruiting for high-impact roles across Engineering, Cloud, Space, and beyond — hardware, software, and satellite communications domains.
Partner deeply with hiring managers on every search: clarify role definitions, design intentional interview loops, calibrate together on candidates, and revisit the loop when the signal isn't matching the bar.
Identify, improve, and own pieces of the hiring system — interview rubrics, scorecard design, sourcing playbooks, intake processes, candidate communications — not just execute the playbook you inherited.
Build AI-powered workflows into your daily practice: use Claude (we use Cowork), Ashby's AI features, Metaview, and the next tool you discover to source smarter, screen faster, and synthesize candidate signals more reliably.
Hit aggressive pipeline velocity and offer-acceptance targets while holding the quality bar — both matter, neither replaces the other.
Surface market insights, comp trends, and structural bottlenecks to hiring managers and leadership so we make better calls earlier.
Champion a candidate experience that reflects Skylo's mission and brand at every touchpoint — transparent communication, timely feedback, and a closing motion that reflects the seriousness of what we're building.